#516 – Thermions Aren’t A Thing

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• Chris has been diving into work (to ignore the US elections). He has also been enjoying OTA DFU with Nordic parts
• 1K video on EEVblog. There was also a Hackaday 1K contest.
• BLE112 module
• USB PD
• Vishay Thermal jumper
• Thermal design
• Pick and place heat sink
• “Thermion”
• “Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong” by Tony Kordyban 
• Customized heatsink
• 345 KV / 34.5 KV videoes from 2 weeks ago
• Rolling blackouts
• Helicopter maintenance of power lines
• FE exam
• Delta and Wye configurations
• Dave is wrappin up his lab move. He made a video about his custom storage for under bench.
• Chris is also moving his desk home from mHUB (while staying a “shop” member) since COVID in the US is spiking (again)
• Sparkfun introduced the A La Carte (ALC) service for creating PCBs with a point and click menu. This is similar to the Gepetto service from Gumstix. We expect to see more of these “non-layout based PCB tools” in the future.
• AMD is buying Xilinx for $35B

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Thanks to Wikipedia for the picture of thermion(ic emission)